Wikileaks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
-- Abdallah II -
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
-- Bill Keller -
EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.
-- Daniel Ellsberg -
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.
-- Jeremy Hammond -
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
-- Jimmy Wales -
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.
-- Joe Lieberman -
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
-- John Perry Barlow -
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
-- Julian Assange -
I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
-- Julian Assange -
WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
-- Michael Moore -
Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
-- Michael Moore -
WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.
-- Peter King -
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.
-- Ray McGovern -
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.
-- Thomas de Maiziere -
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
-- Bob Weinstein -
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.
-- Martin Sorrell -
I never made any reference to John Podesta's email.Does it say #WikiLeaks, #Assange? Julian Assange said, Stone predicted that his emails would be hacked. No, I didn't. I never said anything of the kind.
-- Roger Stone
